Steffen Fäth:According to the Wetzlarer Neuen Zeitung and Mannheimer Morgen the German national player Steffen Fäth is the favored successor of Kim Ekdahl Du Rietz. From 2008 to 2009 the native Frankfurter was already under contract with the lions. Over VfL Gummersbach he landed at the HSG Wetzlar, where Fäth matured to one of the best Bundesliga players and to a support in the German national team. Since this summer the left back has played in Füchse Berlin. His contract expires in the summer of 2018. The Badeners could even be able to get him a year earlier if they pay a transfer.

Without financial compensation, Rhein-Neckar Löwen will according to Mannheimer Morgen not let Kim Ekdahl du Rietz leave in the summer of 2017.